Ladies, Gentlemen, Dear Members, Dear Friends, There are moments, like this conference, where ideas are expressed and where projects take on meaning. I would like to especially thank Mr Dennis Gash, President of IACBE, for his presence. For 18 months, I have had the pleasure of ushering a new dynamic for the FEDE. A FEDE on the move, consistently growing internationally, consistently brimming with new ideas and ambitious projects. Our associative structure, thanks to a federative spirit, bears a globally-oriented project that embraces the values of Europe, that transcends national borders with respect to higher education, that contemplates the supranational as a new frontier, that believes in academic research and views knowledge as universal. Our project consists “of accomplishing”, “of initiating” and “of acting” on a global scale, of enthusiastically [lire plus]